… Our brains don’t let piddling little facts get in the way of a good story, allowing lies to infect the mind with surprising ease. …
David Robeson
“Why are people so incredibly gullible?" BBC News, March 24, 2016
the mind filters
& forgets
the mind soundbites
“government is bad”
“all politicians are crooks”
“immigrants are stealing your jobs”
“thou shalt hate the un-namable party with all thine heart”
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera
it is a brain-game, blame-game,
flame-game
spiked with fear
repetition drowns & buries truth
every time
once the inferno starts,
who can stop it?
freud loosed the sexual
id
pavlov taught us how to leash
the desires of dogs
skinner stimulus-responsed
pigeons & rats & humans
now we know how to brain-wash
demographics
as efficiently as black-boards
we the people––
at the pinnacle of
rational creation––
diminished to
an unconscious cause
craving a dominating
effect